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Subject: Re: GENERIC kernel issues
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Peeps,

If you make the boot process too complicated and it stops being "load
kernel via flash/NFS, boot" then people may just not bother. :-)

I know you're going for correctness and we're hampered by how "linux
does things', but I really do suggest that you first get working,
packaged, easily installed and updated systems using what we currently
heave before you try to make a 'much nicer but noone ever uses it'
solution.

Please don't fall down the trap of "over-engineering correctness that
noone will ever use." that software people do when they don't have
deliverables.

2c,



Adrian